McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...stations years to open up to African American hiring and African American actors and anchors. But the television coverage of events in Virginia was decidedly different from the print media...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A log train with cut, stacked timber, near Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907,...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...American Charles Davenport.49Minzoku Seibutsugaku, 73; Kokudo, 137-138. In accepting racist and biologically-determinist theories about the “nature” of African Americans, Koya concluded that white Americans provided the black population with more...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...play-party songs; Protestant hymns; French drinking songs; sacred, profane, and downright bawdy English and American ballads; French adaptations of English ballads; American fiddle tunes; Creole jurés; ring shout songs; blues...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Justice Research Project," Inter-American Policy Studies Occasional Papers, no. 4 (Austin, TX: Inter-American Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...in history. Exploring seemingly ordinary sites is a way to gain a new awareness of history, even if the sites are often encountered during our everyday routines. Landscape historian John...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...(1897): 251–253. Hot Springs's selection as the site of the federal government's "model" VD clinic would not have surprised early twentieth-century Americans.10C.N. Myers, "Hot Springs and the Model Federal Venereal...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the ongoing mutability of landscape, it is part industrial site with a plywood manufacturing company, part elementary school site, and is bisected by a highway.47The statement that there was a...